Posted on 06/03/2014 2:10:34 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If President Barack Obama hoped his deal with the Taliban to bring back Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl would be a political boon in the midst of the VA scandal, he is in for a big surprise.
Soon after Obama revealed that Bergdahl was to be released, we learned the president agreed to release five of the most hardcore Taliban fighters from America’s terrorist detention facility in Guantanamo Bay in exchange.
“While not as well known as Guantanamo inmates like 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Taliban 5 were some of the worst outlaws in the U.S. war on terror,” Eli Lake and Josh Rogin report in The Daily Beast, noting a Pentagon “dossier” that deemed all five “a high risk to launch attacks against the United States and its allies if they were liberated.”
Negotiating with terrorists is a dangerous and inadvisable policy under most circumstances. The long-term bad often outweighs whatever short-term good. While it is great to see the return of a captured soldier, giving into terrorist demands to get them back provides greater incentive for terrorists to go out and capture more American soldiers in the hopes of making future lopsided deals.
Perhaps Obama hoped that seeing a captured American serviceman return home would overwhelm any American outrage over the deal. But then we learned that Bergdahl was taken into Taliban captivity only after allegedly deserting his fellow troops.
“The sense of pride expressed by officials of the Obama administration at the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is not shared by many of those who served with him, veterans and soldiers who call him a deserter whose ‘selfish act’ ended up costing the lives of better men,” CNN’s Jake Tapper reports.
“At least six soldiers were killed in subsequent searches for Bergdahl,” Tapper added.
To say the least, this complicates the president’s narrative.
And the story doesn’t end here. Get ready for the Bergdahl primetime interview with Barbara Walters or Brian Williams or whoever does these things nowadays. It may take weeks or months, but it will happen, you can be assured of that. What will he say in the interview? If the emails he sent to his parents before he was captured by the Taliban in 2009 are any indication, he will have some scathing words for the country that just gave up five vicious terrorists in order to bring him back.
“The future is too good to waste on lies,” he wrote in an email to his parents before his capture in 2009. “And life is way too short to care for the damnation of others, as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong. I have seen their ideas and I am ashamed to even be American. The horror of the self-righteous arrogance that they thrive in. It is all revolting.”
If his father joins him for the interview, you can expect a lot of Noam Chomsky-esque, left-wing America bashing as well, if his tweets are any guide.
And this is probably the best the Obama administration can hope for at this point. It may get much worse.
There is a lot we do not know, but what if turns out that Bergdahl was not only a deserter, but a traitor who actively aided the Taliban in attacking American troops?
In his piece, Tapper seems to subtly allude to the possibility.
“[M]any soldiers in his platoon said attacks seemed to increase against the United States in Paktika province in the days and weeks following his disappearance,” Tapper wrote, seeming to suggest that Bergdahl may have provided information to the Taliban that aided them in their attacks against American troops.
Fox News confirmed that Bergdahl’s conduct both before and after his capture has been the subject of a classified investigation.
A “Defense Department source confirmed to Fox News that many within the intelligence community harbor serious outstanding concerns not only that Bergdahl may have been a deserter but that he may have been an active collaborator with the enemy,” Fox News’ James Rosen reports.
If it turns out that Bergdahl did indeed collaborate with the enemy, Obama just gave up five of the worst terrorists in American custody for the return of a traitor we will now have to put on trial. And the president authorized this without notifying Congress, which even his supporters in the legal community say violates U.S. law. So much for President Obama’s “Don’t Do Stupid Shit” foreign policy doctrine.
There is also a very real possibility that despite the almost meaningless safeguards the Obama administration put in place, the terrorists the president just released will return to the battlefield to plan and plot against Americans. What if they are responsible for a future attack on the U.S.?
The Bergdahl deal already appears to be a disaster for America and political catastrophe for the Obama administration. Don’t be surprised if the Bergdahlzi hearings come to a theater — or a C-SPAN channel — near you in the not-to-distant future.
“They had to know the allegations against Bowe. We are definitely missing something here. They can’t be that dumb”
I was thinking the same thing, all I can come up with is that whole Obama Cabal hates America. They are just pushing true Patriots faces into their Feces heap, and there isn’t anyone that can do a thing about it. Certainly not Republicans in DC.
All the ass in the White House had to say was we wanted him back to prosecute him for desertion of his unit,and possible collaboration.
This to me just proves the ass was doing it because he wanted the headline of Obama frees prisoner held by the evil terrorists
This may be Hussein’s most serious crime yet.
Know how Obama always says he didn’t know? The smartest yet least informed man ever in the history of the world? Maybe this time he really didn’t know because i’m totaly on board with the get the VA out of the headlines meme. If this guy was clean it would have worked to some extent too.
If thats all they wanted then no need to exchange for him is there?
They did not. They did not count on the men who had direct knowledge speaking out and did not believe that CNN, NBC, Time Magazine, etc would go with the truth.
They figured the rubes would break out the flags, yellow ribbons and party like Osama was dead.
Even the best player will over play a hand.
he has reached the point that he does things simply because he can
Many of us realized that even before he was elected in 2008.
They want most of us dead, the rest in chains.
Keep that in mind, and everything they do makes perfect sense.
Read that there are more than 6 deaths being investigated by the Pentagon, maybe 17 if my memory is correct.
“Read that there are more than 6 deaths being investigated by the Pentagon, maybe 17 if my memory is correct.”
Col. Hunt was on Fox last night (either Megyn or BOR don’t recall which show). He has a lot of contacts in the military, Pentagon, etc. He said 17 deaths more than once, which is the 1st time I had heard that number - heard 6 quite a few times, prior to that.
BO giving up five dangerous military commanders who hate America shortly before they return to the country that America is abandoning?
In exchange for a deserter / probable traitor who hates America and caused the deaths of six brave Americans?
Could hatred for America have some possible connection here? Hatred for America mixed with a profound desire to express the hatred?
Thanks for posting.
I saw these pictures on FNC last night and after asking God to help and bring comfort to the soldiers’ families (the soldiers all looked so young and nice), the 1st thing that came to mind is that the terrorists look very healthy and well-fed. I thought it would be interesting to see pictures of them when they were captured or arrived at Gitmo and now - -I suspect each looks a bit healthier and weighs more (too bad our veterans haven’t been treated as well as the terrorists have been).
The point is the President knew this guy was a deserter and he is acting like this is some kind of noble act,he is hiding behind this We never leave men behind,well we don’t trade deserters and possible collaborators for terrorist leaders who are going to kill more Americans,not until now anyway.
No need to get all frustrated and angry,this guy tipped his hand long ago,I think Obama is subconsciously exposing what most people paying attention have known for years that he is a traitor and if he had a son he would have done the same thing,or if he was younger he would have done the same thing
And... The released terrorists will spend one year pre-release in Qatar, which means Obama may still have some leverage if the Taliban breaks on whatever shady deal that may have been struck.
but they never could have said they wanted him back for trial before getting him back. The blow up would be as bad if there was suddenly a vieo of him being beheaded because he lost all value to the talimonmkies.
doing nothing was the only viable course if Obama knew anything at all about this guy.
You don't really believe that do you?
The Won wants those five back in the fray, fighting vigorously for the Forces of Darkness and Evil, and the sooner the better.
That is my take as well.......
Of course it wasn’t meant to benefit
America. Just Obama...
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